I used [] to set height. It works fine, but the row is of course taller than the text, this is what I want because as more text fills in I want it to go "up" in the cell, not push everything below it down.

So how do I tell it to vertically align bottom of the row for that row?

EDIT (Update):

Ok, this is what I have so far, I went with the tabularht from below. It works by allowing me to position absolutely everything, great! Problem is the part that I want is still filling downward, I need it to fill UP so that it stays where I put it at.

See how it pushes down and overtop of the text below it. I need it to push up and keep at the nombre part. If for instance the nombre part is only two words and only needs the first line it should stay in line, but if it's 3 or 4 word's and pushes to a second line the other word's should push UP instead of down overtop of everything. Thanks for all the help.

Although I'm not entirely clear on what you're after, it seems like using a "strut" would be better here. That is, instead of \\[0.3in], you might be interested in adding a zero-width rule of specific height to (say) the first cell in a particular row: \rule{0pt}{0.5in}.
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WernerSep 13 '12 at 23:16

I've updated my answer with a new possible solution; it is something like that what you want?
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Gonzalo MedinaSep 15 '12 at 0:40

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I am not sure if I understand the question correctly. Perhaps what you want is that independently of the table contents, its bottom will always be in the same vertical position of the page. If this is the case, one possible solution would be to place the tabular material inside a TikZ \node placed at an absolute position on the page and using the proper anchor.

In the following example the tabular bottom will always be in the same vertical position (3cm above the y-coordinate of current page.center); the tabular was built using the tabularht package. If more rows are added, the bottom of the tabular will preserve its vertical position:

After the edit to the original question, it seems that, after all. you can do without using tabular material; what you seem to need is some way to place elements at absolute positions of a page and in this case, you can use, for example, a simple TikZ approach (other packages would also perform the same task, but sice you are using TikZ already, I opted to use this approach); the key text width allows you to control the width of the node:

The hspace and vspace are there to allow me to align the text right where it needs to be, as I am printing on top of another document and things need to line up perfectly. Now with this code it is aligning at the bottom, but as you can tell it's not at the bottom of the cell since the line is so far away from it: link
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jfreak53Sep 14 '12 at 12:53

You have added the space yourself by \vspace and \\[...].
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Heiko OberdiekSep 14 '12 at 13:48

Ok the vspace I don't really need since it's only .03in, I can make that up elsewhere. BUT, I have to have a max height on that cell. See the problem is if I remove the [..] then when the text there is multiline is shifts everything down below it, I can't have that. I need the cell to be big enough to hold two lines at all times, and when there's only one line of text it stays the same as when there's two lines. Basically when there are two lines it shifts up instead of shifting everything down below it.
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jfreak53Sep 14 '12 at 13:54

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I have the suspicion that tabular is not the right tool for this positioning stuff. Consider environment picture (perhaps with package picture and overpic depending on the context). Also tikz could be used.
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Heiko OberdiekSep 14 '12 at 13:57